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    • Academy Award Cinematography (Black-and-White) 1945 · Winner

    • Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 1945 · Nominated

    • Academy Award Writing (Screenplay) 1945 · Nominated

    • Academy Award Art Direction (Black-and-White) 1945 · Nominated

    • Academy Award Directing 1945 · Nominated

  1. The LAURA Award showcases Women Writing the West members’ writing talents and celebrates the short story form. Entries must feature a female protagonist and the story must be set in the American West in the present time, the past, or the future.

  2. Academy Awards, USA. 1945 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Clifton Webb. 1945 Nominee Oscar. Best Director. Otto Preminger. 1945 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay.

  3. The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American actress and producer Laura Dern. Her competitive honors include an Academy Award from three nominations, a British Academy Film Award, a Primetime Emmy Award from eight nominations, and five Golden Globe Awards from eight nominations.

  4. American actress Laura Linney has been nominated and won numerous awards throughout her career in film, television, and stage. She has been the recipient of three Academy Award nominations for her performances in Kenneth Lonergan 's You Can Count on Me (2000), Bill Condon 's Kinsey (2004), and Tamara Jenkins ' Savages (2007).

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    New York City Police DepartmentDetective Mark McPherson is investigating the murder of a young, beautiful, highly successful advertising executive, Laura Hunt, killed by a shotgun blast to the face just inside the doorway of her apartment. He first interviews charismatic newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker, an imperious, effete older man who relates...

    Otto Preminger was looking for a theatrical project to direct and first became aware of Vera Caspary's story when her agent offered him the first draft of a play called Ring Twice for Laura. Preminger liked the high-society setting and the unusual plot twist, but he felt the work needed a major revision and offered to rewrite it with its author. Ca...

    Critical response

    Thomas M. Pryor of The New York Timesobserved: Varietysaid: In 2002, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Timeswrote: Rotten Tomatoes reports that Laura has a 100% fresh rating, based on 60 reviews, with a weighted averageof 8.76/10. The site's consensus reads: "A psychologically complex portrait of obsession, Laura is also a deliciously well-crafted murder mystery."

    Awards and honors

    Joseph LaShelle won the Academy Award for Best Black and White Cinematography. Otto Preminger was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, but lost to Leo McCarey for Going My Way. Clifton Webb was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor but lost to Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way. Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Betty Reinhardt were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but lost to Frank Butler and Frank Cavett for Going My Way. Lyle R...

    Magnetic Video released the film on home video however, by 1992, the film had not been available on home video for almost a decade although was available on LaserDisc. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the film on Region 1 DVD on March 15, 2005. It is in fullscreen format with audio tracks and subtitles in English and Spanish. Bonus trac...

    Radio

    Laura was adapted as a radio play for two different episodes of Lux Radio Theater, the first starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Vincent Price (February 5, 1945), and the second starring Gene Tierney and Victor Mature (February 1, 1954). It was also adapted for the May 30, 1948, broadcast of Ford Theatre with Virginia Gilmore and John Larkin. In addition, Laura was presented twice on The Screen Guild Theater(August 20, 1945, and February 23, 1950), both episodes starring Gene Tierney, Da...

    Television

    In 1955, the movie was remade as a presentation of the drama anthology series The 20th Century Fox Hour, starring Dana Wynter in the title role. Robert Stack played McPherson and George Sanders played Lydecker. The director was John Brahm. The script was written by Mel Dinelli. Laura was also adapted for a television production produced by David Susskind, aired on January 24, 1968, starring Lee Radziwiłł in Gene Tierney's part. Sanders returned in Clifton Webb's role, and Stack in Dana Andrew...

    Film

    In 2005, a Bollywood remake titled Rog was released, directed by Himanshu Brahmbhatt and starring Irrfan Khan and Ilene Hamann.

    McNamara, Eugene. "'Laura' As Novel, Film, and Myth". Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.
    Preminger, Otto, Preminger: An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday 1977. ISBN 0-385-03480-6
    Preminger, Otto and Bogdanovich, Peter, "The Making of Laura", On Film, Volume I, Number 1. (1970)
    Walker, John. "Laura (1944) film review", artdesigncafe, 2009.
    Laura at IMDb
    Laura at AllMovie
    Laura at Box Office Mojo
    Laura at the American Film Institute Catalog
  5. Laura Dern. Jump to. 60 wins & 108 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 2020 Winner Oscar. Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. Marriage Story. 2015 Nominee Oscar. Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. Wild. 1992 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Rambling Rose.

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